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Autistic Adam

@autisticadam.bsky.social

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Autisting my way through life while raising awareness and acceptance amongst the autistic population ♾️ || Derby, UK || ⛰️🚶‍♂️

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 9h

I need to sample these obviously.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 10h

Being autistic and sending a text message and not knowing when you'll get a response just hits differently when you're autistic.

Why ?

It just does.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 10h

I like the bowl, it's all about the bowl for me.

Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 14h

Sorry for infodumping about my special interest out of nowhere, I'm autistic and you said a keyword and it activated my unskippable dialogue which I simply had to share.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 16h

Wishing you all the luck in the world 🙂

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 17h

Being autistic is realising you're never too old to find out you were just masking through your entire identity.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for sharing this Lauren.

Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 1d

Unmasking when you're autistic can be one of the hardest things for someone to do.

Don't expect or ask someone to do this.

Just respect.

That is all.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 1d

The autistic experience of being the joke when you're telling a joke.

Because well it's funny when someone else tells the joke but when you tell the joke it's a completely different story.

To the point of you're the joke instead.

That doesn't seem funny to me.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 1d

Being autistic is getting told you’re hard to read while literally saying what you mean out loud in english.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 2d

Because I have to sleep at some point.

But I suppose I can have it playing in the background 😆

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 2d

If anything it means you can get more listens in.

Result.

Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 2d

Autistic me will stop listening to this song.

I will.

Just one more time.

I will.

Just one more time.

** 100 listens in a row later **

I will.

Just one more time.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 2d

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 2d

The autistic experience of being misperceived as complaining when all you’ve done is just describing something you’ve experienced.

How else am I going to accurately describe something that has happened in a way that’s not complaining if my emotion free descriptions look like complaining.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 2d

Love to see posts like this.

Good for you Himal.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 2d

You like what you like, and that's that.

Keep being you.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah this one stings.

Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 2d

Being autistic is being told why didn’t you ask for help.

Because asking required social scripting, shame buffering, tone analysis, and a risk assessment.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 3d

Autistic life is apparently sticking out like a sore thumb when in reality you just can't be like someone else.

You did try that one though, for months or years infact.

Look where that got you.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes I do wish for more characters/words on here I must admit.

Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 3d

Being described as unpredicatable because you're autistic comes across as like you're arming up for a formal logic slanging match with members of the public.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 6d

Being autistic is sooo fun because you can tell when someone is telling a lie a mile off.

You're just waiting and hoping for the opportunity to pick at what the person is saying by asking questions just to get to the real facts. It's like you're a detective getting to the bottom of solving a crime.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 6d

Being autistic can be so frustrating at times, and here's just one reason why.

Sometimes you can't just "do that"

Even if you were to "do that" before or yesterday, it makes no difference.

Being told well you did that before or yesterday don't help ethier.

Sometimes you simply can't do that.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 9d

Shouldn't speak about anybody like that, regardless of disabilities or not.